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CacheStats Instructions

Getting Started

CacheStats uses the "GPX" file from the "My Finds" Pocket Query to calculate
your statistics. Note: to generate pocket queries, you must be a premium member of geocaching.com.

Step 1: Generate the My Finds Pocket Query
Go to the build pocket queries page of the geocaching.com
website. Click on the "add to queue"
button near the bottom of that page. It will look something like this:

Step 2: Download the Pocket Query
In a few minutes, you should receive an email that informs you that your
pocket query is ready. Unlike some of your smaller pocket queries, the "my finds" pocket query will
not be included as an email attachement. Instead, you must return to the
pocket query page, click on the tab that says "Pocket Queries Ready for Download" and then click
on the link that says "My Finds Pocket Query" to start the download:

The file will be in "zip" format. You can either save it as-is to a folder of your
choice on your computer, or you can extract the gpx file out of the zip file.
CacheStats works with either format, so choose whatever way works best for you. Important: Do not use
EasyGPS to open and save the .gpx file because that strips out statistical information from the file.

Step 3: Open the Pocket Query with CacheStats
Once you have saved the zip file or extracted the gpx file, start CacheStats and click on the "Open GPX file"
button and open the file you just saved.

Step 4: Do it again next week
You'll be able to generate just one My Finds query per week. In order to update your statistics to
include your most recent finds, you will need to go through this procedure again in another week.
Important #2: Each time you do this procedure, save the
file in the same way that you did the first time and overwrite your previously saved file. CacheStats
will then automatically load the file the next time you start it. In addition, since CacheStats creates its
own data file based on the name of your gpx file (to save things such as your FTFs and favorites), it's
very important that you use the same name for the GPX file each week.

Updating Your geocaching.com profile

To update your geocaching.com profile with statistics from CacheStats:

Start cachestats then click the export to HTML button

Add any text that you want to appear before or after your statistics. This will be remembered
so you only have to do this once.